Should I? Cooling suggestion for CPU/5850

Just need some advice from people...

I have 100 bucks to burn in the form of a newegg gift card and have been wanting to cool my system a bit and shoot for some noise reduction.

On top of the Zalman CNPS 10X Performa for my CPU which so far my research shows is a great cooler for the price, I was considering getting the Zalman VF3000A Vga Cooler.

When playing Bad Company 2 my GPU temps get up to around 70c on a 850/1200 OC. Id like the push the GPU a little further if I could. (Asus EAH5850) . Also, CPU temps surpass 60-65c under SuperPi within a couple minutes on stock cooler.

Do any of you feel this would be a worth while upgrade for the cost? Or is the VGA cooler a waste.

Will also be adding 3 120mm case fans to my Antec 300.

Another consideration is I have an Raidmax 730 watt psu.. Yea.. I know... So im looking at a Corsair 750TX (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006)

Your advice and guidance is appreciated.

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AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE (@ 3.6ghz on stock)
MSI 790FX-GD70
OCZ Obsidian 4GB DDR3
Asus Radeon 5850 @ 850/1200
Raidmax 730W (Ew, I know.)
Antec 300
Windows 7

Your temperatures actually seem fine to me. I personally would just add the case fans. Do you have an Enermax or Raidmax, you said each one once? The first $100 I would spend would be on that PSU if it's a Raidmax...

I have the XFX 5850 BE clocked to 765 and 1125 out of the box. it's smoking fast and runs around 60C under load. I too would go with the power supply, but if you (like me) want to eventually crossfire a second 5850 in the future, you're going to want more total wattage. Here's the PSU I bought when I did the build, not using nearly what it's capable of yet, but when adding that second GPU you'll want the extra juice. It's a great PSU and for the same price at +350W you can't go wrong.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] -_-Product

Cheers,

Bmo

You can easily push the card harder without a new fan. For high end gaming like Crysis I enable an OC of 985/1200, slightly higher voltage (1.237V - it was stable in gaming at 1.220 but got artifacting after a couple mins of burn tests). I used MSI Afterburner and did a custom fan set up. It's still quite quiet and in gaming only gets max around 65C, in FurMark tests it gets up to about 78C. I set the fan to max at 70% at 79C, so in general it's much quieter at maybe 40-50% speed. Although I suppose it also depends on your ambient temps, my PC is in the basement and an Antec 900 II case keeps it at 24C - max ever was 28C. It's a Sapphire 5850 btw, and I did not do BIOS flashing or anything like that.
Generally tho I keep it at 700/1100 so that it auto lowers in 2D for extreme quiet and cool running, and for older games like Mass Effect I set it to 775/1125.

Well, to be honest I just jumped in head first and this is what I came out with. I didn't have to do any volt mods/BIOS flashing. Just using a Sapphire 5850. I think I've read the XFX needs to be tweaked to get voltage control. I wasn't sure about going up but once I started in Afterburner I couldn't help pushing it more and more. I can't tell you how many times it crashed but now it's totally stable - tho obviously I had to up the voltage by about .15V. I'm a little concerned about longevity with this OC so I only run it for Crysis and NFS Shift at the moment, otherwise the 775/1125 is good enough. I'm planning to try and see what OC I can get without raising voltage, I haven't really tried that yet.